The Hindu 25.04.2013
Target: 6,000 RWH structures
The GHMC has made it mandatory to build rain water
harvesting structures in plots of 300 sq.mts and above for all the new
constructions. It is also ready to provide technical knowhow and fund up
to 70 per cent of the cost for these structures for the residential
welfare colonies including apartment complexes, said Commissioner M.T.
Krishna Babu.
“We request all the residential welfare
associations and voluntary bodies to contact the deputy commissioners
of the municipal circles concerned for taking up the rain water
harvesting structures,” he said, in an informal chat with presspersons
on Wednesday.
The civic body has set a target of
6,000 odd rain water harvesting structures in the public places, open
lands and parks for the year as against 3,547 constructed last year. It
has also roped in the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) for sensitising
the local population around the campus to take up the structures and
already 24 colonies have build them with the help of the students.
The
Commissioner has also written to the engineering colleges in and around
the twin cities seeking the help of their respective civil engineering
students for campaigning and also aid in constructing the rain water
harvesting structures.
Mr. Krishna Babu also stated
that it was also made compulsory for power bores drilled by the civic
body to have a rain water harvesting structure attached as one-third of
the new wells drilled so far this year got dried.
